Author: coffeeandhistory

The 80th birthday of Woody Allen are l’ opportunity to celebrate a movie theater other than the one that Hollywood has accustomed us since the beginning. Allan Stewart Konigsberg, the real name of New York Director, Jew who has exported the irony of Jewish culture in film through a bewildering and often deviant use of’ irony. Allen has touched all registers of cinema from comedy to drama. His ironic target yields flogging the bourgeoisie and capitalism. Among the roads to get to laugh there are literary and musical knowledge, the assiduous frequentation of psychoanalysis also routes from a skills with it for most of his controversial existence. He has said anything and everything, but for his 80th birthday maybe is better to venture into the film sphere by quoting some of his catchphrase often inspired all’ humor of Groucho Marx.

“My only regret in life is not to have been another”

“I think of that old joke, You know, the one where one goes to a psychiatrist and says: "Doctor, my brother is crazy, thinks he's a chicken!”. And the doctor says: "Why don't you inside?”. And that responds: "And then to me eggs who me?”. Well, I think it matches very much what I'm thinking of male-female relationships: that are absolutely irrational, and crazy, and absurd ... But I think that they continue because most of us need the eggs.”

“I always think that for my birthday I make a party with a huge cake which comes out of a naked woman and gigantic. He beat me and then goes into the cake.”

“I was thinking that I must have something wrong, because I've never had a relationship with a woman that has lasted longer than the one between Hitler and Eva Braun.”

“There is then there's that other joke – important to me – attributed to Groucho Marx ... but I think it goes back to Freud, When he speaks of wit and its relation to the unconscious. Says I am quoting from memory ... say ... I paraphrase ... says: "I would never accept to be part of a club that would accept among his associates one like me". That's the key joke of my adult life regarding my relationships with women.”

“The psychiatrist asked if I had a girl, and I said no. And then she asked me if I had ever been in love. Here's, Therefore, Once I believed to be: MI ears, my heart beat, I was all red ... I had the chicken pox.”

"Have you ever taken a political position in your life?”. "Yes, by small I declined the spinach for 24 hours!”.

“I quit smoking. I live an extra week and in that week it will rain coming down hard.”

“Americans don't ever throw away their rubbish. Turn them on television shows.”

Hector Parker

 

After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, Palestinian territory came under British control. At the end of World War II, However, the British preferred to renounce their mandate and put the area in the hands of the UN, because it was no longer possible for the British Kingdom maintain order in those territories. The United Nations established a Special Committee, the UNSCOP, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, in order to find a business solution that would provide long term stability. UNSCOP's proposal was to create two States, one Arab and one Jewish, and to consider Jerusalem corpus separatum under the supervision of the United Nations.
From a territorial point of view, the partition proposal favoured slightly the Jewish State, that would cover the 56% of the total territory; from the point of view of population, Palestine was then occupied for 2/3 from Arabs and one for 1/3 by Jews: The 2% of the Jews, i.e. 10.000 people, After partition they wouldn't have found neither in Israel, nor in the international area of Jerusalem; the 31% of the Arabs, i.e. 405.000 people, would not have been found to live nor in Arabic, nor in Jerusalem.
The reactions to this proposal were disparate and required lengthy negotiations started: the Jews accepted willingly the plan, While the Arabs rejected it from the beginning; the UN had to resort to more votes to get to the final version of the 29 November 1947, the so-called "UN resolution 181", the UNSCOP plan is approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Immediately followed clashes and skirmishes between the Jewish and Arab population; the departure of British troops in may ' 48 the conflict expanded and gave rise to the Arab Israeli war –.
The "catastrophe", so it is called in Arabic this conflict, led to the origin of the State of Israel, that less than two years after approval of the partition plan extended over an area almost twice that laid down by the UN and the remnants of the planned Palestinian State was annexed to Transjordan and Egypt.
The "two-State solution", the theory that to resolve the conflict in Palestine's need to create two separate States brokered for Arabs and Jews, is considered far more than just a hypothesis, and denotes all the despair and the drama of a coexistence impossible and utopian peace.

Maria

 

The 25 November 2005 professional footballer George Best died. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the 22 may 1946. Before talking about his palmares suffice it to mention that it was l’ only football player that was dedicated to an airport and that his country's State Mint has released the effigy on a banknote. He was singled out by McFarlane, Glantorane's reserve coach. While he was coaching the Cregagh, the team of the District of George, was told McFarlane that the little he started walking at 10 months and to dribble at twelve. McFarlane, after it is done playing, I signaled to Bob Bishop, Observer of Manchester United in Northern Ireland. Bishop organized a game to test its quality, George was fifteen years old and was kept hidden that the other guys had eighteen. He overcame brilliantly proof and Bishop contacted his friend Matt Busby, coach of Manchester United, telling him simply to have found a “Genius”. Manchester United has a tragic connection with il grande Torino, underwent both a plane crash which killed their players. Unlike the Turin to Superga where everybody died, Nell’ accident in Munich makes United survived only Bobby Charlton and Bill Foulkes and technician Matt Busby. In that’ accident Busby lost his protégé Duncan Edwards who received him at the United right at a young age. Perhaps driven by the emotional burden of those events that you decided to know the young George Best and recompose the team to go to win the European Cup. George Best was not a model student, thought only to play football. After some initial uncertainty along came his moment on 14 September 1963. The Jersey number 7 It was his, little by little he began his own climb. Speed dribbling and shooting left and right, was l’ only player that spared restrictive tactical directions Busby, since George hardly would agree. George liked to dribble almost the entire opposing team, Porter embodied and get you in the door with the ball. In those years everything was changing, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones they were remodeling the music, fashion and media riscrivevano social codes. George threw himself fully in all this flurry and became the first footballer fictional story in the game. He was a beautiful boy and had affairs with married women and thousands of other girls, the protagonist of partying and drinking, too many drinks. Cars purchased with l’ greed by an inexhaustible collector. Meanwhile continued to score and to win. Then after two English Championships won, He arrived in 1968 the European Cup and the Golden Ball. Reached that level began the parable descendant of George Best. The debauchery lived with him to pronounce his sentence symbol to a waiter that he delivered yet another Dom Perignon. In a hotel room as he lay with the beautiful round George holding money from La Mancha said “I spent money in alcohol, women and cars, the rest I just squandered”. Now football is not the excited me as much as before so much so that took episodes as not not showing up at a game with Chelsea preferring a weekend with bella Sinead Cusack. Played, in a manner of speaking, up all’ age of forty worldwide but now being l’ hologram of himself. He went to bed with two miss world, He was married twice and had one son. Ran away from anything that would put uncomfortable, How could a kid, but never managed to escape from the’ alcohol. A few days before she left, in hospital, He photographed the destroyed saying “Please don't die like me”. Lived a life that you can't live, where his talent emerged bully in his best time before being killed himself. His legend but flutters in the hearts of his fans that he, in spite of everything, will always remain The Best.

Hector Parker

Texas, 22 November 1963. Friday. John Kennedy was in Texas the day before. There was a pre-election trip that would touch the city of Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Dallas. Was a politically complicated, the southern States were not very in tune with the reforms that Kennedy wanted to implement. A month before a’ prominent Democrats Adlai Stevenson, over the years 50 contentions in vain for the White House to Eisenhower, It was heavily attacked, getting even spit. Fort Worth, hours 7.30. George Thomas, Valet Kennedy woke the President bringing you breakfast: coffee and croissants. John read the Dallas Morning News on which pages a sportswriter invited him to talk about vela if he was going to receive applause. If he had touched on topics like Cuba, civil rights, taxes and Viet Nam would have been highly likely that someone would shoot against presidential Brigantine. In a special page, an article on payment, Instead, posed provocative questions that Kennedy's allegations of perceived pro-communism. These things they irritated the President who failed to use his usual ironic tone to defuse. Kennedy became then the shower and shave and wore steel chest. Then a Pierre Cardin shirt and then a gray suit blue, shoes, of which the left had an orthopedic sole raised six millimetres. During those operations felt the mobs under the window. Came out to greet all those people waiting in the square below. In those moments was also requested Mrs. Kennedy, But John had this to say “Mrs. Kennedy is preparing, do you need some time, but then will look better than all of us”. Following a breakfast at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce where he reiterated concepts such as “It won't be easy but we are still the keystone in the Arch of freedom and I think we will continue to do our duty”. At the end of the ceremony the President of the’ Assembly handed him a gift of a cowboy hat. Kennedy looked at him and then said she would wear at the White House. At 9.30 Jacqueline Kennedy was ready and all dressed in pink reached the hall of Texas Hotels. Talking with her husband reveals the fear of bombings during the bathrooms of crowd that loved John. Kennedy said if someone wanted to kill him rather annoyed could safely do it off a building with a sniper rifle and you couldn't do anything to avoid an episode like that. A little later they took l’ plane that would lead them to Dallas. During that brief trip there was talk of strange atmosphere that reigned among the inhabitants of the city. John turned to his staff questions to try and understand the causes. The plane landed all’ Airport Love Field at 11.40. Just landed Kennedy crossed the airfield and went to the crowd and waved doling out handshakes. Then he climbed with his wife and the Governor Connelly on limousine Lincoln Continental discovery. In tow was a Cadillac with eight secret service agents, then a third car with Vice-President Johnson with his wife and Deputy Yarborough, a’ stock car of the Vice-President, three other passenger cars and three coaches with various authorities and journalists. The sides of the Lincoln Continental carrying the President traveled Dallas motorcycle police officers. The procession headed then towards the city center. L’ reception was very composed and lukewarm, non-hostile. The presidential couple saluted the crowd sometimes bushier, sometimes more rada. At one point Kennedy did stop the car and got out to greet a line of boys. Then the cortege resumed and it came near the Dealey Plaza. The presidential car veered right and then curved to the left past the Texas School Book Depository continuing toward an overpass. The car slowed to 18 kilometers per hour. At 12.30 echoed through a quick succession of shots. A bullet struck him in the throat, a second back, a third struck him in the head, opening the skull. Some fragments of his head flew on the trunk of’ car, and Jacqueline was caught by a desperate how crazy trying to retrieve them clambering on the back of the car. Meanwhile the car gathers speed and headed at the time of’ Hospital, the Parkland Hospital. At 13.30 Texas time President Kennedy was pronounced dead. That same day on’ AirForce One back in Washington with the body of the President, Lyndon Johnson uttered the oath formula with which became the 36 President of the United States, beside him there was Jacqueline with her husband's blood still stained pink dress. John Kennedy loved most of all a poem by Alan Seeger that his wife often read:

I have an appointment with death

Maybe it will happen that take me by the hand

And lead me to his dark earth

And I close my eyes and choke the breath…

But I have an appointment with death

At midnight in a city that is blazing

When spring returns to the North this year

And I'm faithful to their word

I will certainly all’ appointment

His brother Robert at the Democratic Convention 1964 remembered John quoting Shakespeare

“When he dies

pick it up and snap it in little stars,

He will make the vault of heaven so beautiful

that the entire world will love the night

and not love the dazzling sun”

Kennedy's death provoked a feeling of bewilderment, for many it was as if l’ America had lost the innocence of those who went missing in’ illusion of the new frontier. JFK was the change, a new way of seeing the world, impersonating l’ architect who designed a repositioning of the values. History records a jarring comparison of the power of his image and the results of his thousand days in the White House. Lyndon Johnson was the one who took all he had promised JFK in civil rights reform. How then testified her brother Robert with his commitment, Kennedy was learning from his mistakes, as the Bay of pigs page, and his untimely end failed to test him for a second term.

Hector Parker

The 20 November 1925 He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Robert Francis Kennedy. Son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald, brother of John and Ted. He graduated in law in 1948. Married to Ethel Skakel from 1950 and the father of eleven children. He began work as a lawyer and then devoted himself to politics. In 1952 He was appointed by Senator McCarthy consultant on the Committee investigations. He went out and then returned from Office, getting a major role. Meanwhile was a member of the Democratic Party as the brothers John and Ted. He was known as the toughest of the Kennedys by very determined and a certain inflexibility. Character traits that led him to clash with Jimmy Hoffa, the head of the Union of truck drivers. Who wasted no opportunity to detest it publicly, betraying some murky connection with crime. When his father appointed her brother John as the Kennedy to be placed in the White House, Robert had to be the gregarious captain. The Director of the electoral campaign of John Kennedy in 1960 was in the hands of Robert. In the shadows was able to impose his brother's candidacy with firmness and decision. After the victory, he was given the Ministry of Justice. The subsequent violent death of John threw into turmoil. He was the Crown Prince for his family, part of the party, and then the u.s.. Johnson was “the usurper”, but the President's Texan had allies all opponents of JFK that Robert had turned into enemies. And it was there that the change. Robert Kennedy traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. In the convention of 1964 where was unveiled by the candidacy of Lyndon Johnson when the time came for his speech received an ovation even amazing that was reserved for Johnson. However he took the road to run for the Senate. Continued its transformation from the ghost of brother Robert Kennedy. Went in America's poorest, understood before others do the mistake of Viet Nam war. He formulated a program in which no one should be against someone but in favor of a’ Different America where equality reigned. Became the’ last hope of blacks after he killed martin Luther King. In the meantime had become the head of the clan of the Kennedys. His father placed a lot of hope in him. He began the spring of 1968 and Johnson spotted the war in Viet Nam announced that it would no longer run for President. Robert came out of the closet and showed up with his torch for driving a wounded country, eager to revive the American dream. For weeks his rise seemed unstoppable, then the night of 4 and the 5 June 1968 an Arab named Siran Siran shot him after a rally at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. Before losing consciousness asked his wife “the others are fine?”. The concluding phrase that sums up the personality of Robert Kennedy's by George Bernard Shaw;

Some men see things as they are and say: “Because?” I dream things as they never were and I say: “Why not?”.

Hector Parker